lion's share of their base, and then you have issues like tax reform and immigration and maybe even energy on the table, issues where we're told the president is going to go out to the country and campaign on those issues. how do you great a tent big enough for moderate republicans who want to play ball on that stuff and tea partiers who are intransigent? >> it's a really hard question, and the early signs we've seen of what the gop is going to do, some limited talk about how it might move on immigration, you know, some stuff from bobby jindahl about how they change their economic messaging. feels limiting. we've been writing this story about the gop soul searching for a decade at least. >> yes. >> and, you know, we always think that the idealogical conservatives will have to come to a head with a tactical republican establishment and boehner has managed this really elegantly, and so my -- >> i wouldn't say really. he managed it. >> he has managed it. right. >> he still is standing. >> he has managed it, though. that is true. >> that's a decade. you know? >> it's a decade over which the co